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The challenge of participating in the Rio Carnival with a little extra weight

Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 20 (EFE), .- Renata da Silva Angelo is a 35- year-old plus-size sambist, is part of a group of women who decided to break the beauty stereotypes of the Rio Carnival to dance with confidence at the biggest party in Brazil.(CAMERA: Janaína Quinet) Translations: Renata da Silva Angelo: "I always wanted to be a dancer, but the dancer is required to have a sculptural female body, she is the image of seduction, and when I saw the opportunity to be a plus-sized passista, I said, that's my chance."Kennely da Silva: "The fat dancers used to wear big, hot and very heavy clothes, we didn't even have the option to have our costumes evolve because schools don't think of the fattest people and the costumes are huge things, which is exhausting." "I went through a very difficult personal process, I had to rebuild myself, I am still doing it, and finding this project is something that I cannot explain in words. It is very beautiful, it is magical!""We have to produce ourselves to be beautiful because we are here to live and not worry about a pattern."Nilma Duarte: "When I started, I thought it was just working to invite more women to dance, but this has done more. They have come with traumas , wounded, sensitive, with a lack of self-love, and lack of love from others, so much that when you extend your hand, many do not even think you want to help them. They are like a diamond in the rough who needs to be polished.""Self-love is like a perfume; where you pass you exhale that aroma and if you don't have love, then how will you give it. That's what I do."